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Saving Face: The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family Myth

Angie Y. Chung

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Description:The Asian immigrant family myth celebrates Asian families for upholding the traditional heteronormative ideal of the "normal (white) American family" yet also demonizes them for reinforcing oppressive and backwards cultural values. Saving Face cuts through these myths, offering a more nuanced portrait of Asian immigrant families in a changing world. Angie Y. Chung examines how the grown children of Korean and Chinese immigrants emotionally negotiate the complex and conflicted feelings they have toward their family responsibilities and upbringing through new modes of love, communication, and caregiving.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Saving Face: The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family Myth. To get started finding Saving Face: The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family Myth, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 250

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Release: 2016

ISBN: 0813569834

Description: The Asian immigrant family myth celebrates Asian families for upholding the traditional heteronormative ideal of the "normal (white) American family" yet also demonizes them for reinforcing oppressive and backwards cultural values. Saving Face cuts through these myths, offering a more nuanced portrait of Asian immigrant families in a changing world. Angie Y. Chung examines how the grown children of Korean and Chinese immigrants emotionally negotiate the complex and conflicted feelings they have toward their family responsibilities and upbringing through new modes of love, communication, and caregiving.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Saving Face: The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family Myth. To get started finding Saving Face: The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family Myth, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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